What powers thoughtco.com?

Last seen Jun 2026 · 33 technologies across 12 categories

Advertising

Amazon Advertising
since Jun 2021
AppNexus
since Dec 2025
Criteo
since Aug 2018
Google Publisher Tag
since Feb 2021
ID5 v1.0.97
since Aug 2025
Infolinks
since Oct 2025
LiveIntent
since Jan 2023
OpenX
since Oct 2023
Prebid v10.20.0
since Oct 2020
Rubicon Project
since Dec 2025
Tapad
since Dec 2025
theTradeDesk
since Mar 2026

Analytics

comScore
since Feb 2024
Google Analytics
since Jun 2018
Snowplow Analytics
since Oct 2023

CDN

Cloudflare
since Nov 2024
Google Cloud CDN
since Jun 2025

CRM

Salesforce
since Aug 2022

Email

Google Workspace
since Aug 2022

IaaS

Google Cloud
since Jun 2025

JavaScript libraries

core-js v3.49.0
since Sep 2021
LazySizes
since Feb 2022

Marketing automation

Sailthru
since May 2021

Miscellaneous

DocuSign
since Aug 2022
HTTP/3
since Feb 2024
Open Graph
since Sep 2022
RSS
since Nov 2024

Security

Cloudflare Bot Management
since Nov 2024
HSTS
since Sep 2022
reCAPTCHA
since Oct 2025

Segmentation

Adobe Audience Manager
since Apr 2022

Tag managers

Google Tag Manager
since Apr 2018

Top search keywords

KeywordPositionEst. monthly visits
in o on #6 71,900
chemistry experiments #2 36,600
england and london #2 21,900
us postal service hold mail #5 17,300
what does en mean #3 16,100
oxymoron #3 16,100
choose chosen #1 12,300
a million how many zeros #1 12,300
german names and surnames #1 12,300
john steinbeck books #2 12,000
types of whales list #1 11,300
quetzalcoatl god #3 10,700
quite quite #1 10,000
walkman invented #2 9,800
britain and uk #5 9,400
velociraptor #5 9,400
40 degrees fahrenheit to celsius #5 9,400
smallest country in the world #1 9,200
pirate ship #11 9,100
ussr #3 8,800
who is on the $50 dollar bill #1 8,200
yin y yang #3 8,000
billion has how many zeros #2 8,000
how many 0's in a billion #2 8,000
canis dirus #11 7,500

The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.

Top backlinks

Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.

Audience

  • 58% phone
  • 39% desktop
  • 3% tablet
  • United States
  • India
  • United Kingdom
  • Brazil
  • Indonesia
  • Canada

Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.

Open Page Rank

8.55 / 10 · ranked #2,009 of all domains

11,861 referring domains · OpenPageRank

Search traffic

4,169,400 est. monthly organic visits (US)

927,882 keywords in Google's top 30

Core Web Vitals

LCP1.5 s
INP100 ms
CLS0
TTFB700 ms

Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.

Page

  • Language: English
  • CDN: Cloudflare, Google
  • Weight: 2.8 MB · 805 requests
  • Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards

Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.

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